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C. Lane. Salamanders, tree frog and mice from Fire Island beach, Long 

 Island; pickerel from Andover, by Mr. F. G. Sanborn. Calamites from Olive 

 Quarry, St. John, N. B., by Mr. G. Ban-y. Kod of granite, by Dr. B. Joy Jef- 

 fries. Larv£e of dragon flies from the stomach of a trout, taken in Profile 

 Lake, White Mts. N. H. ; green snake from Needham, Mass., by Mr. R. C. 

 Greenleaf. 



October 16. Fungus from White Mts., N. H., by Dr. S. A. Bemis. Larva of 

 an insect from Cohasset, by Dr. S. Kneeland. Minerals from Arrowsic Island 

 off Bath, Me., by Mr. C. J. Sprague. Double butternut from Grafton, Mass., by 

 Mr. W. T. Brigham. 



November 6. Spatangoid from West Indies, by Mr. Frank A. Andrews. Cast 

 skin of a black snake from Michigan, by Mrs. D. D. Hughes. Dtaphermiera 

 femorata from Winchester, Mass., by Captain Lewis. Fourteen birds and a 

 pipe fish from Madras, India, by Mr. P. R. Hunt. Body of an African goat 

 from Cape Palmas, by Mr. W. W. Goodhue. White owl from South Weymouth, 

 Mass., by Mr. E. C. Derby. Malformed bone of a chicken, by Mr J. L. Little, Jr. 

 Centipede, by Mr Chas. Q. Hill. Suail by Dr. J. Romans, Jr. Birds nest from 

 Calcutta, and lizard, by Mr. W. T. Brigham. Skull of Apache Indian, Canis 

 atrans, Lepus, skins of prairie wolf, rattle of rattlesnake, stone axe head used by 

 Apache Indians and minerals from Arizona; ores from California and Mexico, 

 by Dr. J. W. Merriara. Iron ores and glass sandstone from Sylvania, by Mr. 

 J. W. Clarke. 



November 20. Flamingo from Madras, India, by Mr. P. R. Hunt. Fossil wood 

 from Australia, by Dr. F. Mueller. Prepared skull of human foetus, by Dr. W. 

 M. Ogden. An extensive collection of nests and eggs of birds, chiefly Ameri- 

 can, by Mrs. Dr. Henry Bryant. Fruit of Osage orange, by Mr. W. T. Brigham. 

 Lignite from Martha's Vineyard, by Mr. J. C. J. Brown, Jr. Model of the "wel- 

 come imgget" of gold, and Relief Maps of Vesuvius, Etna and Bourbon, by 

 purchase. 



December 4. Specimens of a Lachnus from the linden trees in Boston, by Mr. 

 S. H. Scudder. Saturnia Polyphemus found on Arbor vitae, by Mr. J. C. Merrill, 

 Jr. Rock specimens from Jonesport, Me., by Mr. D. Wellington. Nest of 

 squirrel made in the nest of a catbird from Middleton, JIass., by Rev. J. M. 

 Hubbard. Spine of a ray from Cape Charles, Chesapeake Bay, by Mr. J. R. 

 Johnson. 



December 18. Quicksilver from California, by Mr W. H. Logan. Mam- 

 mals from Germany, by Mr. Jacob Norton. Bitter oranges from New Orleans, 

 by Dr. S. Kneeland. Crystals of mica from Buckfield, Me., by Mr. J. J. May. 



January 3, 1868. Soundings from a depth of ten and twenty-five tatlioms, off 

 Mt. Desert Island, Me.; deposit of Salt Spring, and specimens of the mud- 

 lumps of the delta of the Mississippi, by Mr. C. P. Dillaway. Building stones 

 of the public buildings in Washington, by the Smithsonian Institution. Shells 

 from near Capetown, Africa, by Mrs. Winslow. Birds from New Branswick 

 and Maine, by Mr. G. A. Boardman. Variegated clays from Martha's Vineyard, 

 by Mr. J. C. J. Brown, Jr. Insects from various localities, by Miss Lucy 

 Brewer. 



Januarjf 15. Relief maps of Palma and Tencriffe, by purcliase. Lichen from 



